Morton Family History
Morton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many
places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement
(tun) by or on a marsh or moor (mor)’.Swedish: variant of Martin.French: contracted
form of Moreton 2.Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names
bearing some kind of similarity to it.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Morton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Morton families
 370 - 738  124 - 369 |
 1 - 123  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Morton families
|
1,547 - 3,092 516 - 1,546 |
1 - 515 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Morton families
|
802 - 1,601 268 - 801 |
1 - 267 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Morton Family Origin
Morton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Morton
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Morton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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